*aggressively romanticizes my very restrictive but medically necessary lifestyle by creating a pinterest board*

if they don't affirm the Nicene Creed, they are not Christians. if they claim to be Christians but they don't affirm the Nicene Creed, they are 9 times out of 10 a cult.

Part 1

Yes, Christians should be able to get tattoos and piercings and fake tans, and dye their hair, and microblade their eyebrows, even undergo certain cosmetic procedures, and all sorts of similar things, because the minor characteristics of the body do not impact the perceived fundamental nature of the person any more than having one's legs blasted off in the trenches does. On the other hand, changing your body to appear to possess the phenotype of the opposite sex does; you are refusing your fundamental nature as a woman to make others believe you have a different fundamental nature. Male and female are the only two different fundamental, soul-body natures there are among human beings. Tattooed and not-tattooed is surface-level, body only.

I can say the resurrection body is the same body as we had before in the same way Paul said it in 1 Corinthians 15 when he stressed physical continuity. I can't pretend to know how the science of the resurrection works (to bring science into miracles seems like a futile venture in itself), but I can affirm that Jesus fed 5,000 with 5 loaves and 2 fish, and I can affirm that the body Jesus died with was the same body Jesus rose with.

In reference to this post.

Short answer: I don't know. My best theory is that because such a person had XY chromosomes upon conception, later developed testes, and may even produce sperm, but definitively does not possess ovaries or produce eggs (or the infradian rhythm that goes with), that person is a man who is suffering a purely physical disorder. As I've stated before, both body and soul are created in a fallen state and thus, both are subject to all manner of tragedy. However, I do not believe rules must or should be redefined by their exceptions; rather, exceptions prove the rule. This is what I say to activists trying to apply trans logic to intersex conditions, and it applies in this case as well.

With regard to marriage, I would say that if such a person was aware of their syndrome (assuming they are Christian and have moral qualms about homosexuality), they should consider themselves in the category of Eunuch, having been given the Gift of Celibacy in service to the kingdom. If they are not aware, I could hardly fault them for marrying on the assumption they are the sex their phenotype suggests, as phenotype was designed to do.

one of the great tragedies of life is that if I try to buy a $6000 desk for $140 on FB Marketplace, I am not being thrifty and resourceful, I'm being stupid (scammed)

thunderstorms have always been my friends. but this morning was the first time I've ever been woken by thunder, and the first time I've ever been frightened by thunder.

when you see people in movies who flinch and pull the covers closer when it thunders, I'm always thinking either "what a baby" or "darn that PTSD" but I did that this morning

the sound was as if the empty space outside my window was being blast apart by the Hands of God. I've never heard anything like it, and I thought surely the lightning must've struck the house and it's on fire now (it wasn't)

tip for filmmakers: your scary thunderstorms aren't nearly scary enough